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The Sunday Herald: WHAT do you give someone who’s been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn’t commit? An apology, maybe? ... Well, if you’re David Blunkett, the Labour Home Secretary, the choice is simple: you give them a big, fat bill for the cost of board and lodgings ... more than £3000 for every year they spent in jail while wrongly convicted... Blunkett’s fight has been described as “outrageous”, “morally repugnant” and the “sickest of sick jokes”...
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